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Funding status (1/4). Science contract The science contract will cover the activities for MORE and JUNO, for the phases B2/C/D. Current status: the MORE team formalized an offer on mid March. A technical table with ASI took place in April .
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Funding status (1/4) • Sciencecontract • The science contract will cover the activities for MORE and JUNO, for the phases B2/C/D. • Current status: the MORE team formalized an offer on mid March. • A technical table with ASI took place in April. • Since then, many meetings and telecons were held with ASI, trying to solve problems related to: • Number of WP (to be reduced from 22 to 20) • Duration of contract (not to exceed 36 months; agreed solution: 36 months + 25 to be activated after the first 12) • Institution to manage the contract as a Prime (DIAA?) • As of today, the science team does not have a contract (since July 2008) MORE PM 15 Oct 2009
Funding status (2/4) • UniRoma Team Status: • Manuela Marabucci, temporary contract expiring Nov 5 2009;Simulation of MORE gravimetry experiments; • Gabriele Rapino, Deputy Experiment Manager, contract expiring Oct 31 2009;Documentation Manager, participation to meetings, support to TAS-I; • Rachele Meriggiola, research fellowship expiring Dec 31 2009;Image Processing of Cassini SAR images and development of a S/W to be used also for the MORE rotation experiment MORE PM 15 Oct 2009
Funding status (3/4) • UniPisa Team Status: • Emanuele Latorre, research fellowship expiring Dec 31 2009; • Giacomo Tommei, PhD, research fellowship expiring Apr 30, 2010; • Stefano Cicalo', PhD student ending Dec 31, 2010; • Federica Spoto, MSc student, expected graduation on Sept 2010,(subject: MORE or other, depending on the events) MORE PM 15 Oct 2009
Funding status (4/4) • UniBologna Team Status: • Alberto Graziani, PhD student ending Dec 31, 2009;tropospheric calibrations for MORE • Alessandra Palli, PhD student ending Dec 31, 2011;image processing for the MORE rotation experiment MORE PM 15 Oct 2009
Science activities status (1/2) • Simulation of the gravimetry experiment • Assessment of precision attainable in Mercury gravity field determination • Assessment of the RW desaturation issue • Troposphere calibration • Earth tropospheric calibrations are being developed in two directions: • Development of a S/W code needed to calibrate the dry and wet contributions of the Earth troposphere using dual frequency GPS receiver data • Studying the performance of Water Vapor Radiometers already developed by ESTEC for telecom applications • Orbit Determination S/W • The orbit determination software development is on schedule. MORE PM 15 Oct 2009
Science activities status (2/2) • Ancillary data needed by MORE • The definition of interface requirements related to the ancillary data is on going. No progress since May (lack of manpower) • Allan Deviation Tests • Allan Deviation test have been performed on the Juno KaT, both by TAS-I and Uniroma1, with good results, which give a strong indication that the MORE requirements will be met MORE PM 15 Oct 2009
Near-future agenda • BepiColombo SWT Blois 27-29 October 09 • No representation of the MORE team for lack of funding • Science activities • Depending on the status of the Science Contract: a reassessment of the mid-term plans could be needed if the Science Contract is not approved in the meeting of the ASI Board of Directors of Oct 20, 2009 MORE PM 15 Oct 2009